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2023-07-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Anheuser-Busch Lays Off Nearly 400 Corporate Workers as Bud Light Backlash Continues

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Posted by Fred 2023-07-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 Sadly it's the 'canners' not the management.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-28 00:05|| 2023-07-28 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Instead, the restructuring will ostensibly focus on U.S.-based corporate staff instead, particularly in their New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis offices, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Seems like all the offices should be closed in the first two cities as those who occupied them have total lack of understanding of their former customer base.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-28 07:34|| 2023-07-28 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 So AB caned 400 and the glass bottle company did the same with over 600 a couple weeks ago; how many others have been laid off/ hours reduced at the local levels, yeah I’d say ol’ dylan is a pretty good influencer………

Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-07-28 08:03|| 2023-07-28 08:03|| Front Page Top

#4 So Trans-Lite laid off 400+/- staff.

Was the selection done based on Politics, sexuality, pronoun, or need?

Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-28 08:16|| 2023-07-28 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, in truth, they don't need anyone to set up sales promotions.
I was in the local Wallyworld yesterday. There was an aisle display of Bud Lite. Pristine, perfect square stack. Not even a price sign on it. They didn't bother to put the price up.

Posted by ed in texas 2023-07-28 08:37|| 2023-07-28 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 1st the madness, then the destruction.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-07-28 10:35|| 2023-07-28 10:35|| Front Page Top

#7 The Policy Makers never take it on...the chin.

To reassert, Marketing, under instructions, simply looked up the top-rated...trans influencer...and cut the check. It just happened to be Dylan.

Using Slappy Buttgig, Politicians, Privileged Ivy Leaguers, and Celebrity Has-Beens to call the customers -not consumers- a bunch of assholes is where we are.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-28 10:50|| 2023-07-28 10:50|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ "PROMETHEUS - Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad."

Longfellow: The Masque Of Pandora

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-28 10:58|| 2023-07-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#9 An important point to make - this is not a boycott. No one organized this. There are no websites or FB pages. This is just a lot of beer drinkers deciding they no longer want to be associated with the brand. And I think that's even worse. Where do you go when your brand becomes poison?

Posted by Angstrom 2023-07-28 13:25|| 2023-07-28 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 "To reassert, Marketing, under instructions, simply looked up the top-rated...trans influencer...and cut the check. It just happened to be Dylan."

That's how it started, but there are a dozen competitors in the same beer market segment as Bug Lite. Bud Lite fans picked another that didn't bother them and they aren't coming back. They had a small window to undo the damage and they were silent and hoped it would go away.

Posted by ruprecht 2023-07-28 21:27|| 2023-07-28 21:27|| Front Page Top

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